HAP25- Call for Participation |
‘Working with Memory: History, Storytelling and Practices of Remembrance’
Senate House, University of London, Wednesday 5 March 2025
In 2025, people around the world will reflect on 80 years since the end of World War II, remembering this pivotal moment in global history and commemorating the lives lost during the conflict.
Those of us working with history and collections - archivists, historians, researchers and practitioners - think with memory on a daily basis. However, memory itself is an elusive and plural concept; it is both material and immaterial, and working with memory is not without its challenges.
With HAP25 we want to consider these challenges, share our learnings, celebrate our successes, and delve into the possibilities that occur at the intersections of history and archives. We seek to examine how we understand and work with memory, considering questions like: How are memory, storytelling and remembrance felt and practised? How do we decide what memories to collect, and whose stories to tell? And how can we imagine new, expansive and intersectional ways of working with memory within our practices?
HAP25 aims to explore, but is not limited to, some of the following topics:
Senate House, University of London, Wednesday 5 March 2025
In 2025, people around the world will reflect on 80 years since the end of World War II, remembering this pivotal moment in global history and commemorating the lives lost during the conflict.
Those of us working with history and collections - archivists, historians, researchers and practitioners - think with memory on a daily basis. However, memory itself is an elusive and plural concept; it is both material and immaterial, and working with memory is not without its challenges.
With HAP25 we want to consider these challenges, share our learnings, celebrate our successes, and delve into the possibilities that occur at the intersections of history and archives. We seek to examine how we understand and work with memory, considering questions like: How are memory, storytelling and remembrance felt and practised? How do we decide what memories to collect, and whose stories to tell? And how can we imagine new, expansive and intersectional ways of working with memory within our practices?
HAP25 aims to explore, but is not limited to, some of the following topics:
- Commemoration and remembrance
- Storytelling, history and archival practice
- Ethics and working with memory
- Home, personal memories and archives
- Community memory
- Institutional memory and beyond
- Beyond materiality
Full Call for Participation and information about participant bursaries can be viewed at: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/cfp-hap25
HAP25 is particularly keen to highlight and support smaller organisations, underrepresented collections, and marginalised voices as well as new and emerging research.
Deadline: 30 September (11:45pm)
If you have any questions at all, please email: research@nationalarchives.gov.uk
HAP25 is particularly keen to highlight and support smaller organisations, underrepresented collections, and marginalised voices as well as new and emerging research.
Deadline: 30 September (11:45pm)
If you have any questions at all, please email: research@nationalarchives.gov.uk